Book Form and Narrative Voice

Literature · 10 questions

A ten-question quiz on narrators, focalization, narrative time, and book form.

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1. What type of narrator is also a character in the story being told?

   1. Homodiegetic narrator
   2. Heterodiegetic narrator
   3. Omniscient narrator
   4. Unreliable narrator
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   A) Homodiegetic narrator

2. What kind of focalization limits narrative information to one character's perceptions and knowledge?

   1. Internal focalization
   2. Zero focalization
   3. External focalization
   4. Variable focalization
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   A) Internal focalization

3. If contradictions in a narrative prompt doubt about the narrator's account, how is the narrator described?

   1. Unreliable narrator
   2. Heterodiegetic narrator
   3. Witness narrator
   4. Homodiegetic narrator
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   A) Unreliable narrator

4. What technique blends a character's thoughts or idiom into third-person narration?

   1. Direct discourse
   2. Free indirect discourse
   3. Indirect discourse
   4. Interior monologue
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   B) Free indirect discourse

5. What term covers elements such as a title, preface, or cover that surround the main text?

   1. Intertextuality
   2. Frame narrative
   3. Metafiction
   4. Paratext
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   D) Paratext

6. What term describes a narrative's return to an event from an earlier time?

   1. Summary
   2. Analepsis
   3. Ellipsis
   4. Prolepsis
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   B) Analepsis

7. What technique limits narration to observable behavior and dialogue?

   1. Omniscient narration
   2. Free indirect discourse
   3. Interior monologue
   4. Objective narration
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   D) Objective narration

8. What is it called when a text contains a smaller text that reflects the larger work?

   1. Intertextuality
   2. Mise en abyme
   3. Flashback
   4. Frame narrative
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   B) Mise en abyme

9. A long event in the story is recounted in only a few sentences. Which aspect of narrative time is involved?

   1. Narrative order
   2. Focalization
   3. Narrative duration
   4. Narrative level
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   C) Narrative duration

10. If most of a novel is conveyed through letters, what is its form called?

    1. Historical novel
    2. Picaresque novel
    3. Epistolary novel
    4. Frame novel
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    C) Epistolary novel